Praise for Raising Bertie
"Impressive... lyrical... there's never a moment that doesn't feel intimate and authentic." —Los Angeles Times

"Essential... exquisite... charts nothing less than what it’s like to try to grow up free in the prison capital of the world." —Village Voice

"Powerfully drives home what is obvious and yet what most of us fail to see: Bertie County is America. It's Chicago. It's Detroit. It's Los Angeles. It's a portrait of communities and families striving to do right by their kids, but where schools and lack of job programs fail to meet communities' most desperate needs." —Chicago Sun-Times

"The experiences and the challenges of the rural poor might make it into the national conversation as an abstraction, but rarely with the specificity of this intimate portrait of a black community." —The Hollywood Reporter

"A moving chronicle, and a potent treatise on institutional failings that knows to demonstrate said problems instead of merely preaching them." —Paste Magazine